Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 Analysis of systemic reasons for lower competitiveness of European universities, the case of Poland Kazimierz Stępień Warszawa, June 19, 2010

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 In the modern world low competitiveness = low position in global rankings of HEI = poor performance in partial indices giving a total score. Scientific achievements weight very heavily among the indices and the Polish universities perform poorly in research.

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 In the modern world low competitiveness = low position in global rankings of HEI = poor performance in partial indices giving a total score. Scientific achievements weight very heavily among the indices and the Polish universities perform poorly in research. Why?

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 In the modern world low competitiveness = low position in global rankings of HEI = poor performance in partial indices giving a total score. Scientific achievements weight very heavily among the indices and the Polish universities perform poorly in research. Why?  low level of financing

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 In the modern world low competitiveness = low position in global rankings of HEI = poor performance in partial indices giving a total score. Scientific achievements weight very heavily among the indices and the Polish universities perform poorly in research. Why?  low level of financing  no correlation of financing with quality of research and education

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 In the modern world low competitiveness = low position in global rankings of HEI = poor performance in partial indices giving a total score. Scientific achievements weight very heavily among the indices and the Polish universities perform poorly in research. Why?  low level of financing  no correlation of financing with quality of research and education  historical circumstances

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 In the modern world low competitiveness = low position in global rankings of HEI = poor performance in partial indices giving a total score. Scientific achievements weight very heavily among the indices and the Polish universities perform poorly in research. Why?  low level of financing  no correlation of financing with quality of research and education  historical circumstances  wrong rules of law governing human resources management

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 In the modern world low competitiveness = low position in global rankings of HEI = poor performance in partial indices giving a total score. Scientific achievements weight very heavily among the indices and the Polish universities perform poorly in research. Why?  low level of financing  no correlation of financing with quality of research and education  historical circumstances  wrong rules of law governing human resources management  lack of stimuli for internationalization of staff and students

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 In the modern world low competitiveness = low position in global rankings of HEI = poor performance in partial indices giving a total score. Scientific achievements weight very heavily among the indices and the Polish universities perform poorly in research. Why?  low level of financing  no correlation of financing with quality of research and education  historical circumstances  wrong rules of law governing human resources management  lack of stimuli for internationalization of staff and students  explosion of private HEI

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 Low level of financing Financing of the Polish research and education per capita is lower than in neighbouring countries and several times lower than in Western countries

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 No correlation of financing with quality of research and education Public universities receive funding based on educational size (dominating share) plus core research funding, weakly depending on quality plus funding from competitive grants (a second order quantity) The result? State support is thinly spread over all public HEI

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 Historical circumstances Scientific policy in the People’s Republic of Poland assumed that pure research should be performed in institutes of the PAS, applied research in R&D institutes and HEI were supposed to concentrate on education with limited research, necessary for proper training of students. That was reflected by the funding system. The situation is changing since early 90-ties but very slowly.

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 Wrong rules of law governing human resources management  no real competition for professorships (unlimited number of professors in a faculty)  tolerance for poor research and teaching performance  very low salary, essentially independent of quality  very tolerant retirement policy  too strong influence of trade unions, different democratic bodies like rector conferences, HE and R&D boards, student organisations etc.

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 Lack of stimuli for internationalization of staff and students This is a result of previous reasons rather than an additional one: try to hire an internationally recognized scientist for a Polish salary or try to convince Polish teachers to prepare lectures in English for foreign students just for fun!!

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 Explosion of private HEI A few hundred of private HEI were founded in the last two decades out of nothing: no staff, no infrastructure, no library. They teach almost exclusively in humanities, social sciences and, very few of them, computer sciences.

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 Explosion of private HEI A few hundred of private HEI were founded in the last two decades out of nothing: no staff, no infrastructure, no library. They teach almost exclusively in humanities, social sciences and, very few of them, computer sciences. Results?

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 Explosion of private HEI A few hundred of private HEI were founded in the last two decades out of nothing: no staff, no infrastructure, no library. They teach almost exclusively in humanities, social sciences and, very few of them, computer sciences. Results?  instead of doing research, an overwhelming majority of professors from those disciplines teaches students in two, three, or more private HEI for additional income

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 Explosion of private HEI A few hundred of private HEI were founded in the last two decades out of nothing: no staff, no infrastructure, no library. They teach almost exclusively in humanities, social sciences and, very few of them, computer sciences. Results?  instead of doing research, an overwhelming majority of professors from those disciplines teaches students in two, three, or more private HEI for additional income  with a few exceptions, there is no research performed in them and the level of teaching is embarrassingly low

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 Explosion of private HEI A few hundred of private HEI were founded in the last two decades out of nothing: no staff, no infrastructure, no library. They teach almost exclusively in humanities, social sciences and, very few of them, computer sciences. Results?  instead of doing research, an overwhelming majority of professors from those disciplines teaches students in two, three, or more private HEI for additional income  with a few exceptions, there is no research performed in them and the level of teaching is embarrassingly low  the specialization of HE graduates is at odds with state needs: in 2007 there were only graduates in engineering (increase by a factor of 2 over the last 30 years) and graduates in humanities and social sciences (increase by a factor of 8), among them in teaching training and in bussiness and administration.

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 More recent rankings increasingly include „Web visibility” Do Polish Universities make better in them?

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 More recent rankings increasingly include „Web visibility” Do Polish Universities make better in them? NO!

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 More recent rankings increasingly include „Web visibility” Do Polish Universities make better in them? NO! Why?

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 More recent rankings increasingly include „Web visibility” Do Polish Universities make better in them? NO! Why? Amateurish, user’s unfriendly pages, incomplete basic facts (or lack of thereof), messy and misleading information, unavailable data on scientific publications, even using more than one domain (the case of Warsaw University), ignoring initiatives like EurOpenScholar, etc.

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 Why is it so?

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010 Why is it so? That I do not know

Hyatt Regency WarsawJune 19, 2010